Mozambique: Gas facility to supply Temane Power Plant reaches 92% completion – Watch

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Mozambique: Gas facility to supply Temane Power Plant reaches 92% completion – Watch

5:09 CAT | 13 Aug 2024

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The processing facility that will supply gas to Mozambique’s first gas-fired thermal power plant will be operational by December, with work already about 92% complete, the president of the National Petroleum Institute (INP) said on Monday.

“From what we have seen so far, we are satisfied with the level of work execution. We have been interacting with the managers and they told us that they are about 92% complete, and that encourages us,” Nazário Bangalane said after visiting the future plant.

In addition to supplying gas to the future 540 MW Temane Thermal Power Plant (CTT) in Inhambane province in southern Mozambique, the infrastructure will also produce 30,000 tons of cooking gas [LPG] per year, he added.

“The project will probably be operational by December. The schedule will be met – all the equipment is already available here. (…) This project is important for the country. It is an integrated project that will supply gas for the production of electricity and will also produce LPG [cooking gas], which is an extremely important product for a large part of the Mozambican population, and will reduce imports,” the INP chairman stressed.

Francisco Augusto, vice-president of Operations and Maintenance at the South African multinational Sasol in Mozambique, the company that holds the concession for the project, told journalists that only “some mechanical connections, the electrical part and control systems” are missing in the completion of the factory.

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The Temane Thermal Power Plant project is budgeted at US$650 million (€595.2 million) and the Mozambican government expects the project to increase the country’s installed energy production capacity by around 16%, benefiting around 1.5 million families by 2030 under the Universal Energy Access Programme.

Eletricidade de Moçambique (EDM), a partner in the CTT project, previously announced that the plant would begin commercial operations in January, 2025.